Lifetime prison sentences should be re-examined after a study found racial disparities among those sentenced to North Carolina’s harshest punishment short of death, Duke University legal experts say.

Can prison sentences deter potential criminals? A new study suggests that in certain circumstances, they can. Deterrence is often a stated goal of criminal sentencing guidelines, but there is debate ...

A new study has found that judges appointed by Republican presidents hand down longer sentences to Black defendants than judges appointed by Democrat presidents. The study, conducted by Harvard Law ...

Republican-appointed judges give longer sentences to black defendants and shorter ones to women than those appointed by Democrats, a new study conducted at Harvard reveals. "Republican-appointed ...

Juveniles grow up hearing a multitude of adages about life, such as: "True friends are forever," "Fake it 'til you make it," ...

More than two thirds of the roughly 203,000 prisoners serving life sentences in the United States are people of color, according to a new study citing official corrections data obtained last year from ...

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I’m taking it for granted that anyone who knows anything about the American criminal-justice system could hazard a guess that black men end up serving longer prison sentences than white men who commit ...